The Coode Street Podcast

Episode 706: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 18 - Ray Nayler

With December and the Advent Calendar heading towards their conclusion, Gary and Jonathan chat with recently minted Hugo Award winner Ray Nayler about what he's been reading, what he's been working on, his recent novel Where the Axe is Buried and his upcoming novel, Palaces of the Crow, before talking about ghost stories and year end traditions.

As always, we'd like to thank Ray for making time to talk to us, and hope you enjoy the conversation.

Episode 705: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 17 - Alastair Reynolds

It's Day 17 of our Advent Calendar and today Gary and Jonathan chat with Alastair Reynolds about the 25th Anniversary of Revelation Space, his new short story collections, and his latest novel, Halcyon Years.

We also touch on his favourite books of the year, what he's planning, and his favourite seasonal reads.

As always, our thanks to Al. We hope you enjoy today's episode.

Episode 704: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 16 - Kim Stanley Robinson

It's been a minute since we last spoke to Kim Stanley Robinson on the podcast, back in 2020 when The Ministry for the Future was new in the world. So today, Gary and Jonathan took some time to chat with Stan as part of the Advent Calendar about what he's been doing (a lot), what he's been reading (a lot!), and what he has coming up.

Our discussion touched on first major nonfiction book, 2022's The High Sierra: A Love Story, his forthcoming nonfiction book The Best Journey in the World, and the fabulous news that he's hard at work on a new novel.

As always, our thanks to Stan for making time to talk to us. We hope you all enjoy the discussion.

Episode 703: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 15 - Michael Swanwick

For the 15th day of our Advent Calendar Gary chats with Nebula and five-time Hugo Award winner Michael Swanwick about what he's been reading, how he celebrates the holiday season, what he's had out in the past year and his exciting new short story collection The Universe Box.

As always, we'd like to thank Michael for making time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 702: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 14 - Wole Talabi

For the 14th day of Advent, Jonathan is joined by Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award nominated writer, Wole Talabi, to discuss the books he's been reading, what he'd recommend, his brand new novella "Descent" and the Sauútiverse, and his forthcoming second novel, The Fist of Memory.

As always, our thanks to Wole for taking the time to talk to us. We hope you all enjoy the chat.

Episode 701: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 13 - Theodora Goss

For Day 13 of the Advent Calendar, Gary chats with Theodora Goss all the way from Budapest. They talk about re-reading Patricia McKillip, other favorite reading, and Dora’s excellent recent story collection Letters from an Imaginary Country, as well as her Athena Club novels and what it's like to write fantasies drawing from and commenting on other classic fantasies.

As always, our thanks to Dora for making time to chat with us. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Episode 700: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 12 - Nnedi Okorafor

For this episode, Gary chats with the very busy and very talented Nnedi Okorafor, who has had quite a year with the publication of major new novel Death of the Author; One Way Witch, the second novella in her She Who Knows trilogy; Space Cat, a children’s book starring her own cat Periwinkle; and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, which she co-edited with John Joseph Adams.

We chat about what she’s been reading, her fondness for Stephen King and Peter Straub’s The Talisman, and what’s up for next year, including the final volume of that trilogy, set in the world of her World Fantasy winning Who Fears Death.

Episode 699: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2025 - Day 11 - James Bradley

For Day 11 of our Advent Calendar, Jonathan calls up long-time friend of the podcast, acclaimed writer James Bradley, to discuss what he's been reading lately, his fabulous new novel Landfall, whether he revisits any favourite books or movies at this time of the year, and what he's been working on.

As always, our thanks to James for making the time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the episode.